Did Christ institute the Roman Catholic Church

[Ziggamafu]

Very useful thread for me, thanks guys.

[Mitchell_b55]

When determining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in regards to the Greek Orthodox during the Eastern Schism. The timeline really gives no authoritative answer. Christ's Church, which contains within it the aforesaid 22 churches, is not affected by chronology. Hypothetically, if the Greek Church was apostolically founded prior to the Roman Church and if the Roman Church divided with the Greek Church, then the divide would have been the cause of doctrinal instability on the part of the Greek Church in regards to papal supremacy. The Historical Nature of the Greek Church would not lend to its doctrinal primacy in the matter, because the doctrine they professed against papal supremacy was not historically accurate. The historical qualities of a church do not hold dominance over the doctrinal qualities. Doctrine determines the validity of the Church’s position.

[quote]The question is not whether "Greek" or "Roman" Churches were founded first. The question is how does the authority of the Apostles perpetuate itself?[/quote]

This is the truth of the matter.

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1034954' date='Jul 31 2006, 07:46 PM']
[quote name='Convert4888' post='1034947' date='Jul 31 2006, 07:21 PM']
Yeh, see I know a Greek Orthodox, and of course he will be sympathetic to his cause but, he said that Romish Churches never existed until the schism of 1054 thats what we were born out of. Because of the break of the Bishop and the filoque clause we became a new sect to the whole genre of Christianity.
[/quote]The "Romish" Church had already existed since Peter. Those bishops who did not accept Papal authority broke away from the Church in the Eastern Schism of 1054.[/quote]Just a quick note for Convert4888: centuries ago, English anti-Catholics coined the term "Romish," hoping to discredit and insult the Catholic Church.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1034954' date='Jul 31 2006, 05:46 PM']


[url="http://www.catholic.com/library/eastern_orthodoxy.asp"]Here's a short explanation and history of the Eastern Schism and the Eastern Orthodox.[/url]
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I just found out I had accidentally linked to the wrong article there.

[url="http://www.catholic.com/library/eastern_orthodoxy.asp"]Here's the article on the Eastern Orthodox![/url]

[journeyman]

a diagram from a course I took on Church history

a timeline from the same course


ok, the timelines didn't make it . . . I guess the upload limit was exceeded